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The Shape of ANW to Come
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Ars Nova Workshop
As we begin the next ten years of adventurous and exciting programming, Ars Nova Workshop wants to know a little more about you—what you like, what you want to see, and how you want to see it. We have put together a short survey to help us with this goal, and it would mean a lot to us if you could take a few minutes to fill it out. As a thank you, we are giving away an ANW prize ...
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The Case for the Billboard Top 40 over 40 List
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HypeBot
This last week, Billboard ran their annual 30 under 30 list, identifying the “rising young executives who are driving our business forward with their artistic and business vision." It's a great inventory of up-and-coming power players in the industry, but it's quite ironic that it ran the same week as this story in Newsweek, which effectively argues that most of our long-held assumptions and stereotypes of the youthful, risk-taking, and sharp entrepreneur are actually wrong. How wrong? Citing research by ...
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The Fool's Gold of Paz's Piggybacking Marketing Campaign
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We All Make Music
One of the most important aspects of any marketing campaign is getting yourself in front of the right kinds of people. In the music world, that normally means people who listen to similar kinds of music, or certain groups of people in particular age ranges that have specific sets of interests or hobbies. But more recently, it's started to mean people who want something for free. Last week, a singer/rapper called Paz deployed two campaigns to promote his new mixtape, ...
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Congress's Unsavory Copyright Conundrum
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Many music lovers intrigued by the National Jazz Museum's collection of newly discovered recordings wonder when they will be able to hear more than the samples on the museum's website. Under current law, there is little likelihood that the music will be generally available in most of our lifetimes. That willchange only if Congress loosens copyright restrictions. As an editorial in today's New York Times explains,Copyright laws are designed to ensure that authors and performers receive compensation for their labors ...
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Free That Tenor Sax
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AAJ Staff
For jazz fans, nothing could be more tantalizing than the excerpts made available by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem of newly discovered recordings from the 1930s and '40s. Nearly 1,000 discs containing performances by masters like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Billie Holiday and the long-neglected Herschel Evans suddenly re-emerged when the son of the audio engineer, William Savory, sold them to the museum. The museum is doing its best to clean up and digitize the recordings. But because of ...
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How Not to Write a Press Release, Courtesy of Vice (Part Two)
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We All Make Music
[Part two of Oliver Hall's magnificent “$ell Your Music With Prose" continues below. Part one is here]Emotions and the Chatechrestic Pitch According to a recent press release about a debut album that “has sunshine seeping through every note," the members of the band that made it “evoke a grand sense of nostalgia with their heartfelt melancholy." These guys don't just hope to take your money to make you feel sad, they really feel like shit about it! Hey, can they ...
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How Not to Write a Press Release, Courtesy of Vice (Part One)
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We All Make Music
[The following article, originally titled “$ell Your Music With Prose," first appeared in much longer form in the Anti-Music Issue of Vice Magazine. It was written by Oliver Hall. We thank him for his invaluable contribution, and hope sincerely that every music publicist in the free world reads his words, whether they read them here or elsewhere] There has always been a subliminal note of despair in music sales text: It is the prose style of jobs on the line. ...
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